Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1887-02-25


The boy raised his hat in recognition OF the
order, and then rose, hand over
hand, and went to work; and as he
swung in the storm the passengers wrung
their hands and expected to see himfal The
work done. he came down in safety, and a
Christian man said to him: "Why did YOU
go down in the forecastle before YOU went
up" 'Ah," said the boy, 81 went down to
pray. My mother always taught me before
undertook anything great to pray. n"What
is that you ha in your vestn said the
man. 20, that Is the New Testament no
sad. 81 thought l would carry it with me
il really did go overheard How well
that boy was protected l care not how
great the height or how vast the depth, With
Christ within us, and Christ beneath u.s.
and Christ above us, and Christ all around
u.s. nothing shall befall us in the way OF
harm Christ himself, having been in the
tempest, will deliver all thosa who nut their
trust Ia him. Blessed be his gl,. .o-s name
forever.
The third installment paid for our re.
demption was the Ssviour's sham trial |
call it a sham trial--there has never been any
thing so indecent or unfair in the TONES
Court OF New York, as was witnessed at the
trial of Christ Why, they hustled Him into
the courtroom at two o'clock in the morn
ing. They gave Him no time for counsel
They gave Him no opportunity for subpoena.
ing witnesses The ruff ans who were wander
ing around through the midnight, of course
they saw the arrest and went into the court
room But Jesus's friends were sober men,
were rasue table men. and at that hour-twC
O'Clock in the mornlng-ot course they were
at home asleep. Consequently Christ entered
the courtroom with the ruffians.
Oh look at Him No one to speak word
for Him. lift the lantern until | can look
into His face, and as my heart beats in SYM
pathy for this, the best friend the world ever
had, Himself now utterly friendlesS, an
officer of the courtroom comes up and smites
Him in the mouth, and [ see the blood steal
ing from gum and lip. Oh, it was a farce
of a trial, lasting only perhars an
hour, and then the Judge rises for the sem
tence! 1t is against the law to give sentence
unless there has boen an adjournment of the
court between condemnation aud sentsn"e;
but what cares this judge for the law2 The
man has no friends-iet him de- says the
Judge, and the rutfians outside the rail cry:
AHA! aha that's what we want
- His blood. Hand HIM out here to
us. Away with HIM Away with HIM.
Oh bless God, that amid all the injustice
that may be inflicted upon us in this world
we have divine sympathizer. The world
cannot lie about you, nor abuse you as much
as they did Christ, and Je,us stands
to-day in every court room, in every
home, in every store, and says:
'COuTuRSI by I'LL my hours OIL
maltrcatment and abuse, will protect those
who are trampled on" And when Christ
forgets that two o'clock morning rene, and
the stroke of the rufian on the mouth, and
the bowling Of the unwashed crowd, then He
will forget you and ma in the injustice3 of
! life that may be inflicted uron us.
Some of you want dcliverance from your
troubles, God knows you have enough Of
them, Physical troubles; domestic troubles;
spiritual troubles; financial troubles You
have been gathering them up, some perhaps
for five, or six, or seven years, and you have
divided them into two classes: Those you can
talk about and those you cannot talk about;
and as those griefs are the most grinding
and depres sing which you cannot mention
you get coincidence for the thin rs you can
speak Of while you get no coincidence for the
things that you cannot In your school days
you learned how to bound the States, and
could tell what rivers and lakes and noun
tains ran through them. If you were asked
to-day to bound your worldly estate
you would say it is bounded on the
north by trouble, and on the south
trouble, and on the west by trouble, while
rivers of tears and lakes of woe, and noun
tains of disaster run through it, What are
you going to do with your troubles! Why do
you not go the theater and have your mind
| absorbed in some tragedy? "Oh," you say,
everything nave seen on Ihe boards OF tne
stage is tame com pared with the tragedy of
my own life!" WE'LL then, why do you not
60 to your trunks and closets and
gather up all the mementoes of your
departed friends and put them
out of sight, and take down their pictures
from the wall aud put in the frame a harvest
| scene or some bright and gay spectacle'
"Ah, you say, ''if should remove all these
mementoes of my departed friends, that
would not take away the killing pictures that
are hanging in the gallery of my own heart
Well, if that does not help you, why not
plunge into society and try to wash off in
worldly gayeties al these ASSIGNMENTS of the
soul! "Oh," you say, have tried that!
but how can hear other children laugh when
my children are silent! How can | see other
happy families when my own happy family
is broken up: Trouble, troubled" But do
you gain anything by brooding over your
misfortunes, by sitting down in dark room
by O comparison of the sweet past with the
bitter present? No: that makes things
worse" But l have to tell you to-day that
the Christ Of all sympathy presents Himself.
Is there anybody in this house that can
get along without sympathy! do not think
would live day without it. And yet there
are a great many who seem to get along
without divine sympathy. Their fortune in
the countiug-room, or in the store, or in
the insurance company, takes wings and flies
away. They button up penniless pocket.
They sit down in renury where once
no Jesus to stand by them and say;
| "Oh, man, there are treasures that never
! fail, in banks tina nover break will take
care of you. own the cattle on thousand
hills, and you shall never want" They have
no such divine Saviour to say that to them
do not know how they get along Death
comes to the nursery One voice less in tn,
household. One less fountain of Joy and
laughter. Two hands less to be busy
through the hall. Shadow after shadow
following through that household, yet nc
Jesus to stand there and say: 81 am the
| shepherd. That lamb is not lost. took it of
the cold mountains. All's we'll" Oh, can
| YOU tell me the mystery! Can You solve it,
Tell me how it is that men aud women with
aches, and pains, and sorrows, AMI losses,
and exasperations, and bereavement, can
| get along with )ut sympathizing Christ!
cannot understand it.
| But come here to say this morning that
| II you really want divine sympathy you car
| have it. There are two or threa passages of
Scripture that throh with pity and kindness
and we Cast thy burden on the Lord and
| He will sustain thee 'Come unto lie all
| ye who are weary and heavy laden and
| will give you restn Oh there are green ras
lures where the Heavenly Shepherd leads the
sick and wounded Of the flock! When all the
other trees of the orchard fail God has one
tree of fruit for His dear children. Though
the organ walls out reuben, there CONES
afterward a song, a chant, an anthem, a bat.
te-march, a coronation, victory. Do you
not want the sympathy of Jesus7 | offer il
this morning to everv man and woman in
this house: you need Him. Oh, how much
| yen need Hin.
There was chaDlaiu in the army wounded
unto death. While living there on the felc
he heard at great distan g or some on
crying out in great pain oh my God!'
L nd hn snid "a hin,rnln. Il L